Security update for rubygem-passenger

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0262-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-1000384 ( SUSE ): 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2017-16355 ( SUSE ): 5.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2017-16355 ( NVD ): 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • Containers Module 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for rubygem-passenger fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-16355: When Passenger was running as root it was possible to list the contents of arbitrary files on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml (bsc#1073255).
  • CVE-2017-1000384: Introduces a new check that logs a vulnerability warning if Passenger is run with root permissions while the directory permissions of (parts of) its root dir allow modifications by non-root users (bsc#1068874).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Containers Module 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-12-2018-182=1

Package List:

  • Containers Module 12 (x86_64)
    • rubygem-passenger-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • rubygem-passenger-apache2-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • rubygem-passenger-debugsource-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • ruby2.1-rubygem-passenger-debuginfo-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • ruby2.1-rubygem-passenger-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • rubygem-passenger-apache2-debuginfo-5.0.18-12.5.1
    • rubygem-passenger-debuginfo-5.0.18-12.5.1

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